“IT was in the early months of the war that fame in a somewhat unexpected form came to the village,” said the brochure compiled in 1921 to accompany the unveiling of the Witton Park war ...

George Bradford, from Witton Park, was killed in April 1918 during a naval raid on Zeebrugge in which he secured a landing vessel and took enemy fire. The 31-year-old and Roland Bradford were the ...

Blackburn’s beloved Easter fair has returned to Witton Park, running every day from 12pm to 8.30pm until Easter Monday, 21 April, weather permitting. With bright lights, music, and the smell of ...

THE notorious Witton Park rapist is facing life behind bars after pleading guilty to a savage sex attack on a young woman 11 years ago. Graham Darbyshire's guilty plea to two charges of rape and ...

The old bridge at Witton Park near Bishop Auckland was closed in 2018 after it was found to be "suffering from structural issues". Work on the new bridge across the River Wear began on 15 June and ...

The visit to Blackburn's Witton Country Park will be one of the couple's last official engagements before they wed on 29 April. Offenders on community payback orders are among those drafted in to ...

FORGOTTEN village no longer, the lads from the Rose and Crown in Witton Park – of whose fortunes we wrote last Friday – are in the quarterfinal of the FA Sunday Cup. Now it gets really ...

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The park will open next month at Blackburn’s Witton Country Park, just a 25 minute drive from Preston. It will be Go Ape's first adventure park for children under the age of 10, with two high ...

George Bradford, from Witton Park, was killed in April 1918 during a naval raid on Zeebrugge in which he secured a landing vessel and took enemy fire. The 31-year-old and Roland Bradford were the ...